From the minds of Steve Strange and Midge Ure came the 1980 New Romantics signature song "Fade To Grey". Listen to this track, watch the video and try to imagine how impossibly futuristic this sounded in 1980, after years of guitar based rock and pop. It's a wonderful timepiece, with period NR club footage. Must have been fun to get dressed up in your Phantom Of The Opera outfit, off your head, dancing until dawn and heading home on the tube when the London sun came up. These folks did take themselves a *little" too seriously, but then, so did punk people too. "Fade To Grey", from Visage's 1980 self titled debut - an essential 80's track! (btw, thanks for reminding me about these guys, Scarlett_Echo!)
Posted on 01/14/2007
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The background info really puts this into prespective. I did stop and take a second to put into context how this must of seemed in 1908. The feeling of the music is there, in 1980 2000 or 2050, it will sound other worldly. The video, I think, just suffers from low production value, rather than the concept work.
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one thing i love about music from like 1977-1991 was all the color - the music had color, the videos, the way they dressed - so saturated and rich. i think the colors in most music today (electronic music excepted) is fairly bland, and bands don't really think about it as much as back then.. .
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what's interesting to me is how the influences of 60s french cinema, minimalists like Cage (although that might not be right), the Moog, space travel, all of that started to kind of gel in the late 70s and kind of broke out into this techno pop. I do love this stuff still. Although I always hear Nic Cage from Valley Girl in the back of my head when I listen to this kind of music too: "That synth pop you listen to is gutless!" Or whatever it was he said.
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Hey, you're welcome!